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Household-goods carriers with 30+ drivers

Last updated October 20, 2026

Next update November 2026

Each interstate carrier has to register with FMCSA, the federal motor carrier regulator, and gets a USDOT number. FMCSA keeps those registrations in a public file, its Company Census, and publishes it on the Department of Transportation’s open data portal. Each carrier’s own filing says what it hauls and how many drivers it employs. This table counts the active for-hire carriers in that file that tick the household-goods box: 99,023 of them across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Then it narrows to the 2,239 that report 30 or more drivers on a recent filing, and shows how long they have been on record.

The household-goods flag is a cargo box the carrier ticks itself. Household movers tick it: house moves, apartment moves, office moves. In our reading of the file, freight carriers, furniture retailers and distributors that deliver household goods tick it too. Of the 2,239 with 30 or more drivers, only 153 have a moving word in their name, a rough name test of our own. Most carriers with the flag are small: of the 54,835 with a recent filing, 2,239 report 30 drivers or more. A carrier with 30 drivers is a different animal. Behind those drivers sit dispatchers, planners, warehouse staff and someone who handles claims. That is a company that has had to write things down.

Carriers by state

StateAll carriersMCS-150 in last 24 months30+ drivers100+ drivers30+ drivers, 20+ years
Illinois3,5122,4882557374
Texas12,0656,0472317266
California9,9396,0301814055
Ohio3,0661,9521284953
Florida9,8314,0951063835
Pennsylvania3,3122,081993147
Michigan2,8111,267862140
Indiana1,6631,169812442
Wisconsin1,6601,031802151
Georgia6,0963,065743135
North Carolina3,4652,157611829
New Jersey2,8421,788561025
New York4,2731,775551924
Minnesota2,2741,104521944
Missouri1,5431,057492027
Washington2,2501,24242620
Maryland2,5421,447411123
Virginia2,0041,246411025
Tennessee1,6931,038391423
Iowa842546371019
Arizona2,0501,05133811
Utah925549311217
Colorado2,2641,04131714
Massachusetts1,525897301214
Kentucky1,02556028213
Oklahoma920492241115
South Carolina1,7171,05324611
Alabama1,40175123915
Kansas56840523515
Arkansas510319221018
Mississippi72946820510
Nebraska73739016815
Nevada7664891563
Idaho5063311559
Louisiana7223711528
North Dakota2541851349
Oregon7954951342
Connecticut9495931245
Alaska3811621036
Rhode Island199131733
Maine387212716
Montana252171636
Hawaii267141503
Vermont10273504
South Dakota141106414
New Hampshire191135403
Delaware312183300
Wyoming217140302
New Mexico293181211
West Virginia184118101
District of Columbia5117000
All99,02354,8352,2396691,000

“All carriers” counts every active, authorized-for-hire carrier with the household-goods flag. “MCS-150 in last 24 months” keeps those whose last filing is recent enough to trust; 54,835 of the 99,023 pass. The three right-hand columns count only those 54,835, by the drivers on that filing. “30+ drivers, 20+ years” counts the 30-plus carriers whose USDOT number has been on the census for 20 years or more. States are sorted by the 30+ column; ties go to the state with more 100+ carriers, then alphabetically. A zero means none in our database, not none in the state.

Carriers with 30 or more drivers, by drivers and years on record

Drivers on the MCS-150Under 10 years10 to 19 years20 years or moreAll
30 to 49232255331818
50 to 99269202281752
100 to 24911995226440
250 to 9992827116171
1,000 or more934658
All6575821,0002,239

Of the 2,239, 1,570 report 30 to 99 drivers and 669 report 100 or more. 1,582 have been on record 10 years or more. 1,000 have been on record 20 years or more. Their filings date from 2024 to 2026.

How to read it

Read each row as “carriers in our database with the household-goods flag that clear the line”, not “moving companies in the state”. The flag says a carrier hauls household goods. It does not say that moving homes is its main business, and that holds in every band, not just the largest. The census holds the carriers registered with FMCSA, interstate and in-state alike. A carrier that never registered isn’t in it. So the table is a picture of the federal file, not of the whole moving trade.

The number of carriers in a state and the number of large ones don’t track each other. Texas has the most carriers, 12,065, and Illinois has 3,512. Yet Illinois has the most with 30 or more drivers: 255 to Texas’s 231. Florida has 9,831 carriers and 106 of the 30-plus. Fourteen states have 50 or more of the large carriers, and the top five hold 901 of the 2,239. The District of Columbia has 51 carriers and none at 30 drivers.

The drivers count is the carrier’s own word. It is the “total drivers” line on its MCS-150, the form each interstate carrier files before it starts and then every 24 months. Carriers that work only inside one state are in the census too: 47,072 of the 99,023 are marked intrastate only, and 98 of the 2,239. The federal 24-month rule is written for interstate carriers; applying the same window to in-state carriers is our own rule, so every row is judged the same way. The count covers drivers. It does not count the office, the estimators, the packers or the warehouse staff. So a carrier with 30 drivers on its filing has at least 30 people, and very likely more. Read the column as a floor, not a headcount.

Years on record is the time since the USDOT number first appeared in the census. A carrier on file since 2004 is on record 22 years, whatever its name is now. More than half the carriers that file 100 to 249 drivers have been on record 20 years or more: 226 of 440. In the 1,000-plus band it is 46 of 58.

Where the lines sit: micro1’s referral page lists “Company requirements: 30+ employees”. A carrier with 30 drivers on its filing clears that on drivers alone. That does not mean it qualifies. micro1 decides at application, on the records as well as the headcount. Our page for companies with 30 or more staff covers what such a company keeps and how the steps run.

What a moving company keeps

Some of these carriers are household movers, and a move leaves a long paper trail. A move starts as a survey and ends as a delivery, and each step leaves a record. Our examples, not a buyer’s list.

The estimator walks the house, or does it by video, and writes up an in-home survey. That becomes the estimate: the weight or the cubic feet, the packing, the stairs, the long carry, the piano. The crew arrives and makes an inventory, item by item, with the condition of each piece. The driver and the customer sign the bill of lading. Dispatch builds the crew schedule and the truck routes, and moves them around when a closing date slips. If a dresser arrives scratched, there’s a claims file: the inventory note, the photos, the repair quote and how it was settled.

Say a mover with 60 drivers has been on record since 2003. That’s more than 20 years of surveys turned into estimates, estimates turned into jobs, and jobs that went sideways and got sorted out. It’s the dispatch notes for every peak season. It’s the claims history that taught the crews how to wrap a glass table. None of it is on the company’s website. All of it is the record. A carrier that delivers furniture or hauls freight keeps its own version: dispatch logs, delivery records, damage claims. Our pages on estimates and quotes and job files and work orders go through those two kinds of file in more detail.

micro1 says it is “looking for data that reflects how work is actually performed within an organization,” and its data partnerships page describes “operationally mature companies with 30+ employees, established documentation”. A buyer licenses records like these to train AI models.

What is wanted is how the work was done: how a survey became an estimate, how a crew was scheduled around a late closing, how a damage claim was settled. Customer names and payments are never what is wanted. micro1 says “Personally identifiable information (PII) is removed when relevant,” and that “Companies retain ownership of their underlying data.” Records are de-identified before use. Our explainer on what data buyers want from a trade business goes through it file by file, and how it’s safe sets out what stays with you.

If you run a moving or delivery company with 30 or more people, our estimate asks five questions and gives you a range. It is ours, not an offer. Worth two minutes to see yours?

What is never included

On this page: no company names, no USDOT numbers, no addresses, no phone numbers. The census publishes those; we publish counts.

In a licence: micro1 says the “Anonymization and redaction requirements” are defined with each company before any participation, along with the approved data scope. Our own advice, not micro1’s: keep customer names, home addresses, payment details, card numbers and the contents lists of people’s homes out of any export. The same goes for driver files, medical cards and pay records. What’s useful is the shape of the work, not who was moved.

Methodology

The source. The FMCSA Company Census File on data.transportation.gov (dataset az4n-8mr2). Its own description says it “contains records for active, inactive, and pending entities registered with FMCSA,” including “intrastate non-Hazardous Material (HM) carriers,” and that FMCSA “assigns a unique number to each entity record.” We fetched the snapshot on 17 October 2026 and read our database with read-only queries on 20 October 2026.

What is counted. Carriers with the household-goods cargo flag, status active, and carrier class “authorized for hire”. That is 99,023 companies in 51 jurisdictions, the 50 states and the District of Columbia. 47,072 of them are marked intrastate only. Each company counts once, in the state on its record. Rows our pipeline excluded or merged are not counted.

The drivers count. The carrier’s own total drivers, from its MCS-150. We use it only when the MCS-150 was filed within the last 24 months. The federal rule, 49 CFR 390.19T, requires each carrier “conducting operations in interstate commerce” to file the form “Before it begins operations” and then “Every 24 months”, on a schedule set by the last digits of its USDOT number. A carrier that misses its updates faces penalties and “deactivation of its USDOT Number.” For interstate carriers, a filing older than 24 months is out of step with the rule, so we don’t use its count. For in-state carriers the rule doesn’t set that window; we apply the same 24 months as our own consistency rule. 54,835 carriers have a filing inside the window. The 2,239 with 30 or more drivers, 98 of them intrastate only, all filed in 2024, 2025 or 2026.

Drivers are a floor. The figure counts drivers only. Office staff, estimators, packers, helpers and warehouse crews are not in it. A company’s real headcount is the drivers plus all of those.

Years on record. The years since the USDOT number was added to the census, from the census add date. On a few rows our pipeline matched to another source, such as a state licence, the older age of that licence is kept instead.

What the counts can’t fix. Three things to keep in mind. First, the household-goods flag is the carrier’s own tick. Household movers hold it; in our reading of the file, freight and logistics carriers, furniture retailers and distributors that deliver household goods hold it too. That is true in every band, not only the largest. On our own rough name test, only 153 of the 2,239 have a moving word in their name; a name is a weak signal, so read that as our reading, not a count of movers. Second, the drivers figure is self-reported, and a few filings look like entry errors. One filing claims 96,000 drivers. One filing in a person’s name claims 20,001. We did not correct them. Any such filing inside the 24-month window is counted as filed. Third, a carrier not registered with FMCSA is not in the census, so it is not here.

The queries, in plain words. We ran four counts on the read-only database, each over active, authorized-for-hire carriers with the household-goods flag: (1) all of them, by state; (2) those with an MCS-150 filed in the last 24 months, by state; (3) of those, the ones with 30 or more and 100 or more total drivers, and the 30-plus ones on record 20 years or more, by state; (4) the 30-plus ones by drivers band and by years on record. The intrastate-only counts and the name test were read separately. The totals in each table were checked against the others.

Counts only. No company names, no addresses, no contact details are published here.

Refresh. The table is rebuilt monthly from the latest census snapshot. The next update is due 20 November 2026. For a different public record, our count of WARN notices by state works the same way.

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